Plotting disability in the nineteenth-century novel /

This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Walker Gore, Clare (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Series:Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture.
Subjects:
1800-1899
English fiction > 19th century > History and criticism.
People with disabilities in literature.
Disabilities in literature.
Roman anglais > 19e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Handicap dans la littérature.
English fiction.
Behinderung > Motiv
Englisch
Roman.
Behinderter > Motiv.
Großbritannien
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Series Editor's Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1 A Possible Person?: Marking the Minor Character in Dickens
  • Chapter 2 At the Margins of Mystery: Sensational Difference in Wilkie Collins
  • Chapter 3 (De)Forming Families: Disability and the Marriage Plot in Dinah Mulock Craik and Charlotte M. Yonge
  • Chapter 4 Terminal Decline: Physical Frailty and Moral Inheritance in George Eliot and Henry James
  • Coda
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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